Summary: A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Aubin Pictures 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stella 2013Summary: Presents the four complete one-hour Ed Sullivan Shows that launched the "British Invasion" of the music industry and introduced the Beatles to America. Includes the original commercials.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SOFA Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FOUSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AROLissie
Contents: Unravel -- Sad -- Chasing the sun -- Lonesome wine -- Night moves -- Flowers -- Carving canyons -- I hate this -- Unlock the chains -- Hearts on fire -- Yellow roses -- Midnight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK LISSummary: The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MIKSummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSuliman, Ali
Summary: Elia Suleiman tells stories of the Israeli state from 1948 up to the present day, through the writings found in his father's diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mullican, Moon
Contents: Gimmie my dime, give me my money -- When you're smiling -- I wish that I could shimmy like my sister Kate -- Kangaroo blues -- Draggin' the bow -- I'm tired of you -- Truck driver's blues -- Boog-a-boo baby -- Jessie -- Alice from Dallas -- Pipeliner blues -- New falling rain blues -- What's the matter with deep elem -- Sundown blues -- I'm going back to Sadie -- Rackin' it back -- No good for...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Proper Records 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MULEvans, Lezlie.
Summary: Rhyming verses instruct the reader to count different objects in one of ten languages, including Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Tagalog, and Hebrew.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EVAEvans, Lezlie.
Summary: Children eagerly wait for the snow to begin to fall, and when it does, they spend a day of fun playing in it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC EVALedlie, Georgina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kangaroo Press 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 LEDMullican, Moon
Contents: I'll sail my ship alone (2:11) -- Jole blon (2:31) -- Cherokee boogie (3:00) -- Pipeliner blues (2:29) -- Sweeter than the flowers (2:53) -- Good times gonna roll again (2:06) -- Wabash Cannonball (2:10) -- Ragged but right (2:18) -- I was sorta wonderin' (2:43) -- Farewell (2:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nashville 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MULSulaiman, Hamid
Summary: "It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is controlled by Assad's brutal regime, but is relatively stable. However, as the months pass, the situation becomes increasingly complex and violent. Told in stark, beautiful black-and-white imagery,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Suleiman, Juna
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LETEvans, Lezlie.
Summary: Introduces young readers to common phrases such as "good morning", "thank you", and "please" in German, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Zulu, Japanese, Italian, French, and Portuguese.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 413.21 EVAEvans, Lezlie.
Summary: Rhyming text reveals that, although baby animals are not always perfect, their mothers love them and help them through difficult moments.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Evans 2010Walton, Leslye J. (Leslye Jo Anne)
Summary: "Generations of the Roux family have learned this lesson the hard way. Foolish love appears to be the family birthright, in fact, which casts an ominous fate for its most recent progeny: twins Ava and Henry Lavender. Henry is mute for much of his young life, and Ava -- in all other ways a normal girl -- is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WALCullinan, Thomas
Summary: "The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola "[A] mad gothic tale. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mulligan, Bob.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Whole Nectar Press 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.875 MULMulligan, Gerry.
Contents: Little Rock getaway -- Ballad -- Big city life -- Big city blues -- My kinda love -- Pretty little gypsy -- Bridgehampton South -- Bridgehampton strut.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1963